induced

1. 1
   adjective

   Brought about deliberately or by an outside cause rather than occurring on its own.

   Like a controlled fire deliberately set to clear brush, rather than a wildfire sparked by lightning.

   The drug produced an induced calm that lasted for hours.

   Engineers measured the induced stress along the steel beam.

   Similarartificial

   Oppositespontaneous, natural

   Note

   Its busiest life is at the end of a compound that names the cause: a drug-induced coma, a radiation-induced disease. The cause comes first, and before a noun a hyphen joins it to induced. The adjective does not take degrees. Nothing is more induced than something else, because a state either was brought about or it arose by itself.

   a drug-induced coma

   a radiation-induced disease

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of induce.

   The new tax policy induced many companies to relocate.

   Her calm voice induced a sense of safety in the frightened child.

   Note

   A regular form that does double duty: in they induced him to stay it is simple past, and in the current was induced it is a passive participle. The construction usually shows the meaning. A person followed by a to-infinitive means persuaded. A thing as the object, such as a current or a calm, means caused. In obstetrics the woman herself is the object, so she was induced means her labor was started for her.

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